https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311230 Conviction for murder was held unsafe where the prosecution relied principally on a solitary eye-witness whose account was weakened by close relationship to the parties, admitted intoxication, absence of any stated source of light, and an unnatural silence during the alleged assault. The supporting witnesses gave only derivative accounts of what he later said, while the alleged motive was not satisfactorily proved. The medical evidence could not overcome the serious improbabilities in the ocular version, and the court applied the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt to hold that the evidence did not justify conviction. The conviction was set aside and the accused acquitted on benefit of doubt. en-us Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:28:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311230 Conviction for murder was held unsafe where the prosecution relied principally on a solitary eye-witness whose account was weakened by close relationship to the parties, admitted intoxication, absence of any stated source of light, and an unnatural silence during the alleged assault. The supporting witnesses gave only derivative accounts of what he later said, while the alleged motive was not satisfactorily proved. The medical evidence could not overcome the serious improbabilities in the ocular version, and the court applied the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt to hold that the evidence did not justify conviction. The conviction was set aside and the accused acquitted on benefit of doubt. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=311230